What did you want to be "when you grew up"?

[Joseph41]

This is such a fkn weird thing to think about in hindsight - particularly given that in primary school and stuff, I used to think that people my current age were super old lol.

But anyway, I'm sure most if not all people here have at some point answered the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

For me, I wanted to be a carpenter, then a professional cricketer, then an architect, then a tattoo artist, then a graphic designer, then a teacher, then an academic.

And now I'm none of those things, but I absolutely love my job hahaha.

So - how about you?

(Also this thread was inspired from here, where we seem to have established that everybody wanted to be a marine biologist haha.)

[Calebark]

For me, I wanted to be a carpenter,then a marine biologist, then a professional cricketer, then an architect, then a tattoo artist, then a graphic designer, then a teacher, then an academic.

FTFY

Mine is a lot more boring -- always wanted to be in medicine, although sometimes as a practicising doctor, sometimes as a researcher. I've decided to try and do a med degree and take it from there!

The context is more interesting though. I was born 4 months premature (3 months and 29 days, close enough), so I was in hospital a lot as a kid. Like all kids, I was very curious, and asked constant questions about what they were doing ("what is blood used for?", "what's an MRI?", "why are the sandwhiches always triangles?") -- the doctors and nurses were always happy to oblige, so I suppose my first learning experiences were about medicine, albeit in an extremely simple manner so that a 3 year old count understsand (which I applaud for them finding a way to explain at such a basic level most of the time. Some things I just didn't get ).

My nurses always encouraged me to keep learning about it and become a doctor. I suppose I have kept that interest all throughout my schooling.

One of my favourite nurses also encouraged me to go to this cafe in Bavaria and try this certain ice-cream dish, which I also plan to do

[arunasva]

A pirate then a vet then I just wanted to be

[heids]

> teacher and author (until HS)
> 'scientist', specifically marine biologist :p (early HS)
> physiotherapist (yr 9 - end of HS)
> entrepreneur and writer of some kind, have dabbled in this desire all my life
> aged care --> nurse (yr 9 - now, unsure if I'll complete the path)
> still have to figure out what my current when-I-grow-up plan is

[sweetiepi]

To be honest, I juggled a lot of things around but here's just a few:
- Nurse (I think this was in primary school )
- Mathematician (Year 7-9) (I decided against this in year 10, for good reasons )
- Musician (Prep-4, year 8-10)
- Teacher (Year 10)
- Scientist (Year 10- now) (Sorta my current path obviously )
- Marine Biologist  (Year

[strawberries]

when I was a kid, I wanted to be a princess and live happily ever after (lol), then a singer.

Since high school I've never really been sure haha

[Joseph41]

A pirate then a vet then I just wanted to be

What are your aspirations now?

[Aaron]

Teacher. My focus has always been teaching - but the type of teaching has sort of changed. I went from wanting to be a primary school teacher in primary school, to being a high school teacher in high school.... and then it stopped there (it didn't change after I went to uni the first time round).

(jeez that's funny, I swear i'm doing something reaaallyyy similar right now )

[sudodds]

when my brother was 5 we asked him this question and he responded with "goat".

Anyways for me ummmm astronaut --> drummer (dunno where this came from) --> vet --> marine biologist --> actor --> director --> screenwriter --> video editor --> tbh just anything in film pls 

[Sine]

when my brother was 5 we asked him this question and he responded with "goat".

Anyways for me ummmm astronaut --> drummer (dunno where this came from) --> vet --> marine biologist --> actor --> director --> screenwriter --> video editor --> tbh just anything in film pls 

G.O.A.T = Greatest of all time

[sudodds]

G.O.A.T = Greatest of all time

I mean I doubt my brother thought that far ahead when he was 5, particularly as his next response to the question was "party bag," but appreciate the effort you put into justifying his goals hahahaha

[sweetiepi]

when my brother was 5 we asked him this question and he responded with "goat".

Remind me to ask my brother about this when I get home please But tbh it's a great goal

[Joseph41]

when my brother was 5 we asked him this question and he responded with "goat".

When he was like five (I was in Grade 6), my buddy wanted to be "a scarecrow" hahaha.

G.O.A.T = Greatest of all time

[sweetiepi]

My five-and-a-half year old brother's response is: "I wanna be a teacher because I like running around school" :')

[Joseph41]

I wanted to eat for a living. I remember very vaguely playing 'Jamie Oliver' with my sister with the mistaken belief that Jamie Oliver cooked food on the tele to eat it for a living. Too bad the job isn't in demand so much these days

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